Numbers 8:24
This is the ordinance for the Levites; From five and twenty years old and upward, they shall go in to minister in the tabernacle of witness.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
23And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
25And from fifty years old the Levite shall cease from the ministry, and shall not work any longer.
Cross References
Numbers 4:3from twenty-five years old and upward until fifty years, everyone that goes in to minister, to do all the works in the tabernacle of witness.
1 Chronicles 23:3And the Levites numbered themselves from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls amounted to thirty and eight thousand men.
1 Chronicles 28:12and the plan which he had in his mind of the courts of the house of the Lord, and of all the chambers round about, designed for the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries of the holy things, and of the chambers for resting:
Matthew Henry on Numbers 8:6-26
The Consecration of the Levites. ( b. c. 1490.) 5 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 6 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. 7 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean. 8 Then let them take a young bullock with his meat offering, even fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin offering. 9 And thou… Read the whole commentary →